John Post on tue 28 mar 06
I originally gave earl a kind of a smart ass answer about cataloging
glazes but I thought about it over the last day or two and realized that
if you were actually searching for a specific glaze or look you would
probably be using grids or triaxials to do it.
I label my currie grids with 3 letters usually. So if I was working on
a glaze called cream breaking rust, I might call the currie grid cbr. A
currie grid has a fairly large surface to write on the back. I normally
write the whole glaze recipe on the back of the tile. If a glaze from
the tile looked interesting I might test it on some pots. I would call
that glaze cbr - and then the number that corresponds to its location on
the currie grid. So it might be called something like cbr-23.
If you make 285 separate currie grids x 35 glazes on each grid you end
up with around 10,000 glazes.
It takes me about 3 hours or so to complete all of the work for one
currie grid.
So 285 currie grids would take around 855 hours.
855 hours divided by a 40 hour week = a little over 21 weeks of time.
So if you really want to explore 10,000 glazes, all you need is 21 weeks
of time and a meticulous attention to mind numbing mixing and voila,
you're there.
Cheers,
John Post
Sterling Heights, Michigan
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